Re: Frequent timeout

2018-08-31 Thread Chuck Swiger via bind-users
Hi, Alex-- On Aug 31, 2018, at 3:49 PM, Alex wrote: > The interface does show some packet loss: > > br0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 > [ ... ] >RX packets 1610535 bytes 963148307 (918.5 MiB) >RX errors 0 dropped 5066 overruns 0 frame 0 > > Is some packet loss such as the above to

Re: Frequent timeout

2018-08-31 Thread Alex
Hi, On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 5:54 PM Darcy, Kevin wrote: > > I'll second the use of tcpdump, and also add that DNS query traffic, using > UDP by default, tends to be hypersensitive to packet loss. TCP will retry and > folks may not even notice a slight drop in performance, but DNS queries, >

Re: Frequent timeout

2018-08-31 Thread Darcy, Kevin
I'll second the use of tcpdump, and also add that DNS query traffic, using UDP by default, tends to be hypersensitive to packet loss. TCP will retry and folks may not even notice a slight drop in performance, but DNS queries, under the same conditions, can fail completely. Thus, DNS is often the

Re: Frequent timeout

2018-08-31 Thread John W. Blue via bind-users
tcpdump is your newest best friend to troubleshoot network issues. You need to see what (if anything) is being placed on the wire and the responses (if any). My goto syntax is: tcpdump -n -i eth0 port domain I like -n because it prevents a PTR lookup from happing. Why add extra noise? As

Frequent timeout

2018-08-31 Thread Alex
Hi, Would someone please help me understand why I'm receiving so many timeouts? This is on a fedora28 system with bind-9.11.4 acting as a mail server and running on a cable modem. It appears to happen during all times, including when the link is otherwise idle. 31-Aug-2018 16:52:57.297